COLD WAR

BEGINNING

• 1945-1985
• Tensions between the U.S. AND USSR
• Result after WW2 over dominant power
• Named "cold war" because there was no actual warfare

ECONOMIC SYSTEMS

• Capitalism- People own property
• Communism- Government owns property
• The main between these two is that
• Communism is strict government control
• And Capitalism encourages free trade and private ownership

U.S. FOREIGN POLICY

• The Soviet Union responded by making their own nuclear weapons
• THE KITCHEN DEBATE
• Between Nixon and Khruschev about how both communism and capitalism
• Had their good and bad parts for society